Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1878 — Page 2

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General News Summary.

On Um Mth «*., rreeMent Haye* proclaimed a declaration between the Untied State* and *NCk Britain, for the reciprocal protection of trade-mark, tn the two countries, which Bedaratton te to the effect that the aubjeeta or rMftta* of each of the contracting jxrUo. shall have. In the dominion* and poamMalon* of the other, on complying with the law* thereof, the name right* a* belong to native •abject* or citizen*, either at present or here after to be granted, in everything relating to property in trade mark* or trade-labels. Tai Secretary of the Treasury, on the 30th nit., iasaed the aixty-fourth call for the redemption of 85.000,030 of 5-30 bond* of 1865, Interest to cease on the 30th of October next. Tn subscription* to the 4-per-cent. loan daring the month of April were 24,973,150; May, 27,530,500; June, •8,002,100; July, 819,272,200. Total for the four saonths, *30,882,930. Tas public-debt statement, as published on the Ist, indicates the following: Total debt, including interest of 896,179.243, 83.304,896,<M; cash in Treasury, •200,316,170; debt less cash in Treasury, 88,085,580,525; decrease during July, 8206,307. Junes Miij.ku, of the United States Bupreme Court, was so far recovered from the effects of the dangerous surgical operation performed upon him a few weeks ago, as to ride out, on the Ist A oommunhatiox ha* boon addressed, by Commissioner Raum, of the Internal Revenue Department, Washington, to the Revenue Collectors in Southern Districts, where trouble* have arisen on account of illicit distilling, setting forth the willingness of the Government to deal leniently with all who will stop their violat ion of the law.

THZ XAST. Tub Maine Republicans held their State Convention at Portland, on the 3qth ult. Gov. Cqpnor was unanimously renominated, and a platform was adopted favoring wise prohibitory legislation; declaring that, until the citizens of each State are protected by the National Government in their Constitutional rights, civil and political, in the several States, the work of the Republican party is unfinished; that our currency must be made as good as coin and redeemable in it, and congratulating the country on the “unmistakable evidence that the near approach to a stable currency is pre oaring the way for an early and permanent revival of business and industry,” Some carrier-pigeons which were started on a race from Columbus, Ohio, for Naw York City, on the morning of the 26th ult.. were not heardJrom until the morning of the 31st, when they landed at Lancaster, Pa., 125 miles from their destination, having fiown a distance of 375 miles toward their home. The prizes offered had been withdrawn. The Greenbackers of Vermont met in State Convention at Burlington, on the Ist, and. after the adoption of a platform, adjourned to meet at St, Albans, on the 22d, for the nomination of State officers. The resolutions adopted demand that all money issued by the Government shall be a full legal tender for all purposes; that money shall be created in quantities sufficient for the wants of trade; that there shall be no privileged class of creditors; that the public lands shall be donated to actual settlers; that sinecures shall be abolished and Governmental affairs economically administered; that a graded income tax be assessed on incomes of 82,000 and upward, etc., etc. . | lx New York City, during July, there were sixty-seven failures, with aggregate liabilities 0185,738,171. Gold closed in New York, on August 2d, at ItOt*. The following were the closing quotation* for produce: No. 2 Chicago Spring Wheat, *1.075£@1.06; No. 2 Milwaukee, Oats, Western, Com, Western, Mixed, 43@49c. Pork, Mess, 810.75. Lard, 87.55. Flour, Good to Choice, [email protected]. Winter Wheat, 85.80@ 6.50. Cattle, [email protected] for Good to Extra. Sheep, [email protected]. Hogs, 84.60®4.70. AT East Liberty, Pa., on August 2d, Cattle brought: Best, |5.12%@5.25; Medium, 84.50 @5.00; Common, Hogs sold— Yorkers, »[email protected]; 4.90. Sheep brought [email protected] —according to quality. At Baltimore, Md., on August 2d, Cattle brought: Best, [email protected]; Medium, f337J-5(«4.37J~j. Hogs sold at 26.00(0)6.75 for Good. Sheep were quoted at [email protected] for good.

WEST AMD MOl'Tfl. Ejkly in last June, a Deputy United States Marshal, attended by three Deputy Revenue Collectors, attempted to arrest a man in Pickens County, 8. C., on a charge of illicitly distilling whisky. One of the hired men of the accused made an alleged forcible resistance to the officer, and was killed. The four men were indicted for murder, and a conflict of authority grew out of the case between the State and Federal Courts, the State authorities contending for the sole jurisdiction of the State Court. Judge Kershaw refused to grant writ* of transfer to the United States Circuit Court. It was decided at Washington, on the 27th, to insist upon the transfer of the case to the latter court, and measures would be taken accordingly.

On the 29th, the President of the Board of Health of New Orleans reported, that the yellow fever prevailed in that city to such an extent that it would not be proper to issue clear bills of health to vessels leaving that port. Vp to noon on that day, the total eases reported were eighty, and the deaths thirty-three. Quarantine had been established at most of the ports on the Mississippi below Cairo. Ansouncbment was maoe, on the 29th, that 3. H. McVicker, the well-known theatrical manager, of Chicago, had filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy. The immediate cause of the failure is said to have been the judgment of *507,000 against him and others as bondsmen of Gage, the defaulting City Treasurer. The total liabilities, including the judgment, are *650,000. Thb conditions were very favorable for astronomical observations of the eclipse of the sun. on the 29th, especially on the line of totality in the Western States and Territories. Prof. Colbert, of the Chicago Astronomical Society, reports that Ilia observations at Denver tend to show that the .moon’s path in the heavens lay a little further to the southward' than indicated by the lunar tables, or else that the estimate of the moon’s diameter is too large—perhaps both. The duration there of the totality was two minutes, forty and one-half seconds—three and one-half seconds less than the computed time. ‘ The measures made by Mr. Easterday indicated that the corona extended out on an average about twenty-six minutes of arc, corresponding to a distance of fully 700,000 miles, ell around the sun. The chromosphere was distinctly . seen by Prof. Hough, indicating a thickness of some 3,000 mile*. The protuberances were niueh less prominent than at most of the rtoent eclipses. The scarcity of red lines tends to confirm the theory pf connection with sun spots, thia present time being near the minWW qf stjeb spots. No signs of Vulcan yere discovered any of the parties at DenM T* Ot An “ Ar^ r ’ Mh!l1 ’ wm at Separation, Wyo. T.. and discovered an |ntta-Mercurial planet of the size of a four fad a half-ipagnitude star, about

deg. southwest of the sun. Mr. Lockyer, who w«* with Prof. Wataon, say* the corona was ten time* brighter than in 1871, showing a great variation of *uch brightnea* between the maximum and minimum period* of *unapota. On this occasion the corona vanished instantly, while tn 1871 It remained visible for several minute* after totality. Edison’s experiments, at Rawlins, with the taaimetcr, are said to have lieen quite satisfactory. The obaervation* at Fort W.wth, Tex., were a perfect success. Several photograph* of the eclipse were taken, in different localities. A Ban Fhakcisoo telegram of the 29th ult. say* the Indian war in Oregon was considered virtually at an end, and volunteer* wen l t>eing discharged The Republican State Central Committee of Wisconsin adopted a platform, in the shape of an address, on the 81st ult., declaring adherence to the principles of th* Republican National platform of 1876, and the sentiments expressed in Mr. Haye*’ letter of acceptance; demanding that all citizens, without dlstlnction, shall enjoy equal rights before the law in all sections of the Union; rejoicing in the prospect of the resumption of specie payment before the close of the present year, and declaring that a stable currency possessing intrinsic value—coin, or paper convertible at par into gold or sliver, at the pleasure of the bolder—is the only secure foundation of permanent business prosperity; declaring that the investigation respecting the last Presidential election has wholly failed to disclose any improper action by President Hayes. Theke was received at New Orleans, on the 81st ult., the first bale of new cotton from the Mississippi Valley, raised in Adams County, Miss. It was classed good middling and sold at auction at eighteen and a quarter cents per pound. The report that Gen. Mackenzie had again crossed the Rio Grande, Into Mexico, was de-

nied on the 31*t ult The river was to j high' for crossing. Everything was reported quiet on the border. Font colored men, in Jail at Monroe, La., on a charge of murder, were taken possession of by a mob, on the morning of the 30th ult, and hanged to a tree, in the Court-House Square of the town. Thb corner on July wheat, which had existed in Milwaukee and Chicago during the month, culminated on the afternoon of the 31st ult. In Milwaukee, Spring No. 2, during tlie day, sold for 81-20 to 81.30, and in Chicago for 21.08 to 21.10, and many settlements were made at these figures. A great many operators in both places, however, declined to fulfill (Jieir contracts, preferring to have the differences ascertained by arbitrators. It is believed that the manipulators of the corner have realized from 2300,000 to 2500,000. A monument to Jonathan Walker, of the “Branded Hand,” was unveiled at Muskegon, Mich., on the Ist. The monument is of granite, and on one of Its sides is an inscription reading: “This monument is erected to thd memory of Capt. Jonathan Walker, by his anti-slavery friend, Photius Fisk, Chaplain of the United States Navy.” The monument was unveiled by ladles, who placed a wreath of flowers over it. Letters were read from the poet Whittier and Fred Douglass. Parker Pillsbury delivered a lengthy address. The Town of Clinton, in DeWitt County, 111,, was visited bv a destructive tornado, on the evening of the 31st ult., which prostrated a ’ large number of dwellings and business structures, and greatly damaged the growing crops. The storm extended throughout Central Illinois, and was fruitful in damage Jo buildings and crops. Several persons were killed by lightning and a great many structures burned.

At the South Carolina State DemocraticConvention, held on the Ist, Gov. Hampton and the other State officers were unanimously renominated. The platform adopted reaffirms the platform of 1876; guarantees full protection to all classes of citizens; opposes fusion with Republicans; advises the encouragement of immigration, etc., etc. The Board of Health of New Orleans reported thirty-six new cases of yellow fever in that city and seven deaths for the twentyfout hours ending at noon on the 2d. Two eases had been brought to Cincinnati from the South, one of which had proved fatal; but a telegram from that city, on the 2d, says no apprehensions were felt of the spread of the disease there. Quarantine regulations were being strictlv enforced in most or all of the Southwestern cities. Ox the Istf Alta City, the oldest mining town in Utah, was almost entirely destroyed by fire. Judge Varnes lay down upon a sofa in the Swan House, with a cigar in his mouth, and the flames started from this cigar. ; Of the 200 buildings in the town, 175 were burned. Mr. Varnes, the innocent and careless cause of the tire, perished in the flames. Pkof. Watson is said to feel certain that, during the recent eclipse, he discovered the planet Vulcan southwest of the sun, about 2 deg. distant. Prof. Draper succeeded in getting a photograph of the spectrum of the corona, thus proving that most of the light of the eOrona is reflected from the sun, and is not due to ignited gas.

? In Chicago, on August 2d, Spring Wheat Ntte 2 closed at cash, 97c for August, 91Jjc for September. Cash Corn closed at 39%c for No. 2,39 c for August, 38%c for September. Cash Oats Nd. 2 fold at 24i,ic; and seller September. Rye No. 2,50 c. Barley No. 2, 74%@75c for cash, 81.19%(«S1.20 for September (New.) Cash Mess Pork closed at 29.-87 X." Lard, 87.35, Beeves—Extra, Choice, 24.40(04.65; Good, - 23.75@4>15; Medium Grades, 2&[email protected]; Butchers’ Stock, 82 [email protected]; Stock Cattle, etc., 22.50(33.25. Hogs brought [email protected] 'for . Good to Choice. Sheep sold at for Poor to Choice.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

The Pan-Anglican Conference adjourned on the 27th. The Marquis of Lome, son-in-law of Queen Victoria, has been appointed Governor-Gen-eral of Canada, to succeed Lord Dufferin. The Austrian troops crossed the Bosnian frontier on the 29th, meeting with no opposition either from the Turkish troops or the Bosnian insurgents. Elections for members of the German Parliament were held bn the 30th ult. Re turns received up to the morning of the 31st ult- indicated the defeat of the Government. According to late Vienna dispatches, a Turkish agitator had raised the standard of revolt against the Ottoman authorities at Serajevo, the capital of Bosnia. A Belgrade dispatch says a proposition to make Servia a Kingdom would be made in September. A Belgrade telegram of the 31st ultstates that Servia had established an army of observation on the Bosnian frontier. The Russian member has withdrawn from the Commission, to investigate concerning the Rhodope insurrection. Some of the insurgent witnesses swore that'there was an understanding between them and the Russians, whereupon' the Russian member insisted that Inquiry in that direction be abandoned. This being refused, he withdrew, leaving only his dragoman to represent his Government The Austrian Government has issued an order prohibiting the exportation of’ horses. Tn* Archbishop of Canterbury has appointed a day of genera] thanksgiving throughout Great Britain for the maintenance of peace in Europe. , A Ministerial crisis has occurred in the Sultan’s Cabinet brought about by the differences of opinion as to the Austrian occupation of Bosnia. y Cardinal Fkaxchi. the pontifical Secretary of State, died on the morning of the Ist

Ox the evening Of the 2d, the resolutions of eensure upon the Government, introduced to the British House of Commons by Lord Hartington, were rejected by a vote of 196 to 838—a Government majority of 143. The House then passed a vote of confidence.

THE INVESTIGATION.

EX-CONOBEMMAM MoBBY wm TVcalled, on ths *aid he believed there would have been n"trouble in maintaining th* Packard Government in Louisiana had it been recognised a* Kellogg's was, and had th* President given it moral support and recognition. Witness hint advised the President that the withdraw si <>f troop* from Ixtuisiana and the nonmaintenance of the Packard Government would he the destruction of the Republican party there. The President took ths poation that ths Republican party could no longer maintain that policy which had lost New York to the Ilepublican*. He treated the subject as of National concern. Ho far as he knew no returns has Iwen thrown out on inadequate and insufficient proof. There was a movement to make Nicholl* Governor, even to the exjent of violence. Gen. Butler examined witness as to proofs and affidavits laid before ths Returning Board with reference to Elixa Pinkston being brought into the room of the Returning Board on a sofa. Witness said such a conveyance was a matter of necessity, owing to her wounds, and it naturally produtx-d a strong impression on the Bond. Mr. Hypher was recalled and reinterrqgatcd concerning the alleged Sherman letter, ana gave substantially the same answers. Capt. L. G. Dennis, of Florida, was permitted to make an explanation concerning Gov. Noyes' testimony before the Potter Committee in Washington. Gov. Noyes had testified that when the life of Dennis had been threatened be had called together in a church, somewhere, the colored people of the vicinity, and had them kneel down and raise their hands and swear if he were killed they would lay waste in avery direction, and avenge his death. Capt. Dennis desired to say nothing of the kind had taken place, and that Gov. Noyes must have been misinformed. There was no intimidation or threats when he spoke at Newman rille. Ex-Bcnator Trumbull testified that he left for New Orleans on invitation of Mr. Hewitt, Chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee, io witness the count of the Returning Board, in company with other gentlemen similarly invited. The viaitors were not present when the Board retired for deliberation; they did not see the compilation of the returns by which the Board arrived atr results, nor did he know whether any affidavits presented to the Board were read at all. At this point the Committee voted to suspend their sessions at Atlantic City and adjourned to New York to examine ex-Gov. Palmer, of Illinois. ' The Committee met in New York, on the 29th, according to adjournment, and examined ex-Gov. Palmer, who testified that he was one of the Democratic visitors to New Orleans in 1876, and their Chairman. After organization, they had called upon, Gov. Kellogg, and had a free conversation with him. He (Kellogg) said the apparent returns showed the State had gone for Tildep, but that in consequence of intimidation five parishes would be thrown out and this would give the State to the Hayes Electors. Witness went to see Caaacnave and Kenner, who knew his sympathies for the colored people. He gave the bestadvioe he could, but Caasenave, who was the most honest in the Retumi ng Board, wild the Democratic party could not be trusted with the interests of the colored people and that they must be kept out of power. In response to questions put by Congressman Hiscock, he said that next to emancipation he thought the greatest blessing the colored people had received was their being mustered out of politics, which he considered to be virtually the case. The Republicans in Louisiana had used the colored people as monkeys, to pnll their chestnuts out of the fire. He found the Returning Board as partisan as he bad expected. He told Wells and Anderson that the Tilden Electors, in his opinion, were fairly returned; but if they decided otherwise, they should be supported by evidence which would satisfy the country at large. He believed that the Demoocratic Sarty in Louisiana would have submitted to the Packard Government if they believed it had been honestly elected, but they felt they had been cheated and would rather have had a Federal Administration, with a military Governor in charge of the State. He had no doubt that the State authorities coula have readily discovered the truth regarding the Eliza Pinkston outrage. for he bad satisfied himself on that subject. Congressman Potter submitted the letter to Mr. Sypher, by the man Smith, of Canton, Miss., relative to the Pinkston matter, which had already been published. After reading this letter, on motion of Mr. Hiscock, the committee adjourned to meet in New York City, Aug. 12, unless otherwise arranged by the Chairman in the interim.

THE LABOR INVESTIGATION.

The Committee of the National House of Representatives to consider the financial and labor depression question met in New York City, on the Ist. There were present Messrs. A. 8. Hewitt (N. Y.). J. M. Thompson (Pa.), W. W. Rice (Mass.) and Thomas A. Boyd (DL) Word was received that H. L. Hickey (Ohio) would not be able to serve until after the October elections. After an executive session, the Committee decided to sit daily, and hear such persons as might appear, taking the risk of their expenses being repaid. Thomas Rock, who represented the stonemasons, wished the Committee to recommend that all Government work should be done by people of the place in which the Government buildings are being erected. He spoke against the system of giving out contracts for Government work, a* the contractor made the profit which the Government might save by employing the workmen direct. He did not intend to apply the rule to private individuals, and would not advise the Government to regulate wages. Much of the want of employment has arisen from the use of machinery, the sawing of stone being now done by machines. If there was no machinery, the society might compel men to work only for wages fixed by the society, Hugh McGregor, one of the self-constituted committee consisting of Justus Schwaab, F. Brunor and himself, addressed the Committee on the subject of the Government collecting statistics of the laboring classes, and so arranging them that they could be readily referred to. He said it was the duty of the United States to examine into every manufactory, take testimony under oath as to the labor question, inquire into their sanitary condition and do everything necessary for the welfare of the laboring classes. He charged that the use of machinery was the cause of the lack of employment for men. and said the maintenance of families now devolves on the women and children, rather than the men. The Committee asked McGregor if he was willing to take an oath as to the truth of what he stated, and he answered he did not lake an oath, and did not believe in what was called the EverLiving and True God. He was then asked how he could expect the Government to enforce upon others what he had refused to do: force others to testify, under oath, as to the way they conducted their private business. The representative of the granite-cutters attributed the depression in his trade to the contract system and machinery: said he waz dta- 1 charged from Government work in Albany for ventilating his views, and that men were kept at work there who were not skilled workmen, and who were paid as much as skilled labor. Mr. Hewitt said if the'Witness embodied his statement in an affidavit he would forward it to Sec’y Sherman and have the matter investigated. Bartolomee, Chairman of the “ Social Democratic party,” stated before the Committee, on the 2d, that the times are now worse than they were in 1870. He urged the establishment of a Labor Bureau similar to that in Massachusetts, and that no politician should be allowed to have anything to do with it. He would have no accumulation of capital in private hands, but under the control of the Government for the benefit of the people. • ~~’ ’ Isaac Bennett, cigar-maker, advocated the regulation of the use of machinery, not its destruction. He wanted machinery regulated to such an extent that it would not cause enforced idleness of workmen. He said the reduction of the time of labor to eight hour* per day would increase wages; but aid not reply to a question as to whether the reduction of a day's labor to six hours would not then still further increase wages. Adolph Douai, of the Socialistic Labor party, next appeared, and maintained that the Government ought to provide land for every man and woman in the United States. He claimed that the Government should enact a law to prevent men from being forced to labor longer than eight hours a day. and forbidding their engagement in any occupation that would be injurious to their health or constitution. Jqmes Connelly, representing the National Greenback party, ascribed tiieifcnresaion in labor to the bond system, saying that the people take their money out of manufactures and invest it in bonds, on which they obtain interest. He denounced the railroad land grants, and thought- the Govemmeh t should hive DuiH their own railroads. The great means, he declared, to relieve the distress ’among the laboring classes was’ for 1 the Government to assist them to settle on the public lands, and insure them support until thejrseaped the first crop. He affirmed that all the laws of Congress were in favor of large manufacturers and dealers, and tended to crush out the middle and small classes. .After hearing a few other witnesses whose views were similar to those given, the Committee invited the manufactorers, business men, etc., to give their view*.

Judge Bradley T. Johnson argues, in an elaborate paper in the American Law Review for July, that the States of the Union can be compelled by judgment of the National Supreme (hurt, supported by the force of the Union, to pay their debts when they have practically repudiated them. A man in conyict’s garb is.a.distin-guished-looking person. It is for that striped clothes are worn. ' t ' - The hungry’ man longs to eat and the glutton eats too long, * 2 _

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. —The bite of an owl has been known to create hydrophobia. —Young men cannot inherit character along with their father’* money. —At a recent Sheriff’s sale, at Lebanon, Pa., coffins went at one dollar Mio*- -. v ■ i' t . ‘." i ' —False friendship Is like the parasitic moss which feeds on the life of the tree which it pretends to adorn. —Young men do not die for unreSuited Idve in these times. They shoot le lady-cause of it. — Boston Post. —A sour heart will never make a sweet life. Plant the crabapple where you will, it will never beat pippins. —On the morning of the Fourth ice was formed in Gold Hill, Nev., to the thickness of a pane of window glass. —Now when your pate ia like boiled beef. From noonday's rays so fiercely shed, Hkirminh round for a cabbaee-leaf, And put it on your head. —Trenton Oasfttt. —lt is a very good thing to metin well, but if you expect to get on in the world you must also do well. Good Intentions pay no debts. —The chap who ate a pint of cherries in the dark, a few nights ago, thinks it was the wormest night of the season.— Norristown Herald. —ln the way of worship in hot weather, a man thinks he is doing well enough when he allows his wife to go to church.— N. O*. Picayune. —An old Grecian philosopher advises all men to know themselves. That’s suggesting to a good many to form disreputable acquaintance. —As they passed a gentleman whose optics were terribly on the bias, little Dot murmured: “Ma, he’s got one eye that don’t go.”— Syracuse Times. —One of the most ambitious things in the world is the bottom of a berrybox. Its motto is that sterling old one, *‘There’s plenty of room at the top.” —Chicago Journal. —Bartholdi’s statue of “Liberty” will not be able fb stare people out of countenance. The young woman is to have her stairs inside of ner head.— N. Y. Commercial Advertiser. ■

“We never saw a man,” says an exchange, “who thought it a sin to steal an umbrella.” Then you never saw a man whose umbrella had just been stolen.— New Haven Register. —ln a recent divorce case at Norwich, Conn., it was shown that the young wife got drunk a day or two after the wedding, and remained so for three months. The divorce was granted. —Many of the suites of rooms in the new flats in New York are without kitchens. There are restaurants on the ground floor, where tenants are supplied with meals at a fixed price per week. ■ —Pessimism —’Squire—“ Well, Mr. Dibbles, not much to complain of this year. I never saw the farm look so well. Things grow as in a hot bed!” Farmer—“ Sad weather for weeds, sir.” jPumcA. ——.—, —Every once in a while we hear of a California woman killing a bear. This is all right. But we challenge the world to ransack the pages of History and show where a woman has ever got away with a mouse.— Oil City Derrick. —The argumentum ad— “ Sam, you are not honest. Why do you put all the good peaches on the top of the measure and the little ones below?” “ Same reason, sah, dat makes de front of your house all marble and de back gate chiefly slop bar’l, sah.” —lt’s well to look at both sides of a fan. On a “ heated” Sunday in Philadelphia, the other day, the minister was fanning himself vigorously. He did not see, but the congregation did, that the reverse of his fan bore the inscription, “Buy Boggles’ Bitters.”— Poston Transcript. —Young mother, deeply interested in a novel, but preserving some idea of her duties as a mother, to her eldestborn—“Henrietta, where is your little sister?” Henrietta—“ In the next room, ma.” Young mother, turning over page—“ Go ana see what’s she doing and tell her to stop it this minute.” —Paris Paper. -

—A Dutchman, having lost his horses, started in search of them. Meeting a man in the road he inquired of him if he had seen them. Being a stranger in those parts, the man asked Hans to describe them. “Veil,” said he, “dey was very mooch alike, ’specially the on one. Von looks so mooch like poth, I can’t tell toder from which. Ven I vent after the one, I alvays caught do oder; an’ I whipped de one most dead because de oder kicked me. Seen anything of them, hey?” “Oh, Johnny!” cried a nervous mother, “do have some pity on my poor head! Can’t you play without shouting so?” Poor Johnny -drew up the tape reins with which he was driving two chairs tandem, and called out in a loud, hoarse whisper: “ Get up—whoa!” But at length, finding little pleasure in this suppressed amusement, he threw down his reins, and, laying his'hands upon his breast, said with a long breath, “ Oh, mother, its full of noise in here and it hurts me so to keep it in! Don’t all little boys make a noise when they play?” “Yes, Johnny, I believe they all do,” replied the lady. “ Oh, then, mother dear,” cried Johnny, in a winning tone, “ please let me be a little boy.” We will join poor Johnny in his petition. Please, mother, let your sons be little boys while they may. Let them have a free and happy childhood, that when your heads are low in the grave they may point back to those days and say, “ We were happy children, for there was always sunshine where our mother was.” —St. Nicholas.

Mr. Quiggles Clears Up the Gloom.

“ I’ll tell you how it is,” said Quiggjes, to. a friend, who wqs complaining of being crowded into a corner, “ you can make a fortune by going into bankruptcy, if your debts are only big enough to make it an object. The more you owe, the-moreyou make, don’t you ‘‘No, I’ll be smothered if I do,” said the unfortunate friend. “ I owe enough, mercy knows, if that’s all you want, but how I’m to pay even fifty cents on the dollar, and nave anything left to commence over again, is one of the things I can’t see into.” “ But you don’t want to pay your debts, man. Well, but you are a green un—that is too good. Pay! Ha-ha! What are you going to fail for?” «“Coz I can’t help it. Bang it all, what are you laughing about?” “But you ean’t afford to fail in these hard times, unless you can make a snug*, thing out of it* You mustn’t plunge headlong into ruin with your eyds shut,” said Quiggles, adjusting his diamond pin. “Mustn’t I?” “No! never do in the world. Have your wits about you and keep your head clear. Don’t let the trouble worry you I

brio fogging your brain with too much drink. Wouldn’t, do at all. Keep your eye peeled and watch for the main chance.” *• Yea—yes; I see. But how?” - “You must appoint your own receiver, and be sure to select the wont mutton-head you can find. Get a man that don’t know enough to drive a cow, and, too lazy to add up a column of figures, even if he knows how. If you can find an ignoramus that can’t read, so much the better. Make him believe there ain’t hardly anything to divide, and you can buy him off cheap.” “So, ho, that's the way, is it? Go on. I’m learning fast.” “ If the man you get is green enough and not too blamed awkward to stumble on the true state of things accidentally, you wpn’t have a bit of trouble. Whack up with him right on the start, chuck his eyes chock full of dust, keep your own counsel and rake in the pile.” “ But the creditors—what are they to do?” “Them? Oh, they can hold the bag and take what drops, but you take mighty good care to hold the screen steady and see that nothing gets through. Play it fine, and you’re heeled, old boy, mark me. I’m talking by the book, for I’ve been there myself, you know,” And Quiggles consulted his magnificent stem-winder and said it was about his time of day to refresh.— Cincinnati Breakfast- Table.

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—Union College has given Edison the degree of Doctor of Phflosopby. —Senator Gordon, of Georgia,. has bought a tract of several thousand acres in Worth County, Ga., for a sheep farm. -■-It is reported that the King of the Belgians has offered to defray the expenses of another trip across Africa by Stanley, and that the latter has accepted the offer. —Jesse Pomeroy, the Boston boy murderer, was recently put to work in Concord (Mass.) Prison, but he willfully spoiled $75 worth of stock, and now none of the officers are allowed to speak to him, and he has to endure solitary confinement with nothing to do. —The term Blue Stocking, applied to literary ladies, was conferred on a society which was called the Blue Stocking Club, in which females were admitted; and so called owing to a Mr. Benjamin Stillingfleet, one of its acting members, always wearing blue stockings. —Of the report that a nephew of Senator Sumner married a wandering actress old enough to be his mother, who, after a short honeymoon, left him for parts unknown, and that he had tried in vain to have the wife acknowledged and received by his relatives in Boston, the Boston Journal says: “Senator bumner left no nephew for the simple reason that he never had one. The twin sister of the Senator, Matilda, died unmarried, and George, Jane, Mary and Horace were never married. His brother Albert and sister Julia were married and had daughters only.” —A New York letter relates the following : “A gentleman was in Orange, N. J., the other day. He wanted to go to the mountain. There was no coach at hand. A gentlemen in a carriage offered the stranger a seat, which was accepted. The gentleman was civil and pointed out the beauties of the region. He seemed to have the faculty of drawing men out rather than of communicating. * Gen. McClellan lives in this neighborhood, I believe,’ said the visitor. *He does. He has a small home on the mountain.’ The drive was extended. The courteous gentleman seemed to have many acquaintances. Nearly, every passer on foot or in carriage lifted his hat. Publie men were talked of. The stranger was about to ask about the * General,’ and he now wonders that he did not. The coach pulled up at an elegant mansion, and the gentleman said: * This is Gen. McClellan’s house; won’t you walk in?’ ‘ And this is Gov. McClellan, I presume,’ said the stranger. *At your service,’ was the response.”

How Diamonds Were Found in South Africa.

The modern discovery of diamonds came about in this wise. In 1867 a certain John O’Reilly, traderand hunter, on his way from the interior, reached the junction of the rivers and stopped for the night at the farm of a Dutch farmer named Van Niekerk. The children were playing on the earth floor with some pretty pebbles they had found long before in the river. One of these pebbles attracted O’Reilly’s attention. He said, picking it up, “That might be a diamond.” Niekerklaughed and said he could have it; it was no diamond; if it was, there were plenty around there. However, O’Reilly was not to be laughed out of his idea, and said that if Niekerk didn’t object he would take it down with him to Cape Town and see what it was, and if it proved to be of value he would give him half the proceeds. On the way down, a long journey, he stopped at Colesburg, at the hotel, and showed the pebble, scratching with it a pane of glass. His friends laughingly scratched glass with a gun-flint and threw the pebble out of the window, telling O’Reilly not to make a fool of himself. However, O’Reilly persevered, got it to Dr. Atherstonc, near the coast, who announced that it was in truth a diamond of 22i carats. It was sold for $3,000. I am glad to say that O’Reilly diyided fairly with Niekerk. The

latter remembered that he had seen an immense stone in the hands of a Kaffir witch-doctor, who used it in his incantations. He found the fetish-man, gave him 500 sheep, horses and nearly all he possessed, and sold it the same day to an experienced diamond-buyer for $56,000. This was the famous “Star of South Africa.” It weighed 83} carats in the rough and was found to be a gem quite the rival of any Indian stone in purity and brilliance. After it had been cut it was bought by the Earl of Dudley and it is now known as the “ Dudley” diamond. The natives crawled over the ground and found many more, and the excitement grew and became intense. By 1868- parties in ox-wagons had worked their wayoverthe weary plains to the Vaal River. From all parts of the Colony and from foreign lands, people swarmed, and soon, like the creation of a dream, a tented city of 12,000 and .more grew at Pniel and Klipdrift, the opposite banks of the stream where diamonds were found plentifully and of excellent quality by sorting over the bowlder-drift; Soon hundreds of cradles like those used by the Australian golddiggers were rocking on the edge of the stream, supplied with the precious gravel by a large force of diggers, sievers, and carriers, People were

thunderstruck at their success. Poor men with a turn of the hand became rich. Hotels, bakeries, breweries, drinking saloons and shops were erected and reaped rewards quite as large as did the diggers. It was a marvelous scene at night when the opposite camps were lit up with the warm glow of lights shining through the tent cloth buildings and the brilliant camp-fires of then- 12,000 inhabitants glinted across the water, from bank to bank. Far into the night were kept up the shouts and laughter and singing and music, and the crossing and recrossing of the boats. The excited crowds shifted their quarters up and down the river, making new discoveries during 1870 and 1871, over an area of from forty to fifty miles of the stream, and forming many camps such as Gong Gong, Union Kopje, Colesberg Kopje, Delport’s Hope, Blue Jacket, Forlorn Hope, Waldeks’ Plant, Larkin's Flat and Niekerk’s Hope.— Dr. IF. J. Morton, in Scribner for August.

The Medical Properties of Some Common Fruits.

This is the season of certain useful fruits, and it is well that we know and appreciate their useful qualities. The fruit of both the black and red currant imparts its virtues to water. The juice of the red currant contains citric acid, malic acid, sugar, vegetable jelly, gum—and the juice is said to be diuretic and diaphoritic. The juice, when made into a jelly or a jam or a paste, is very useful in febrile and inflammatory cases, and in hoarseness and affections of the throat. No family should be without these jellies, so healthful and refreshing to those afflioted with fever. The raspberry, the blackberry and the dewberry. These plants possess similar medical properties, and may be substituted the one for the other, and belong to the same genus. The bark of dewberry and blackberry should be preferred, as the woody portion is inert; their odor and tastes are similar, and they impart their virtues to water, alcohol or port wine. We know of no accurate analysis of the bark, but it contains much tartaric acid, with bitter extractive. The fruits of these summer plants are highly esteemed as an article of diet, and are made into cordials, jams, jelly, syrup, and they contain citric and malic acids, sugar, mucus, etc. ' ■ ■ ' ■ _ ■ ' The fruit of the blackberry makes an excellent sirup, which is of much service in dysentery, being pleasant to the taste, mitigating the sufferings of the patient, and ultimately effecting a cure. It is within reach of every family at this season of the year. The raspberry affords an agreeable acid drink, rarely disturbing the stomach, and usefully promoting the action of the bowels, we have known fever patients to be agreeably refreshed with raspberry sirup added to water, and we also know it to be beneficial during convalescence.

A decoction of the leaves of the raspberry, or of the bark of the roots, has been found an excellent remedy in diarrhea, dysentery, cholera infantum and hemorrhage of the stomach or bowels. It is well to know that a decoction of the raspberry leaf, diluted with cream, will allay vomiting and nausea. We have the blue whortleberry, the black whortleberry or huckleberry, the bush whortleberry and other varieties possessing similar properties, common to the Northern States, flowering in May and June, and ripening their fruit in July and August. We notice that they all yield their virtues to water, are Strongly diuretic and astringent. The fruit of the whortleberry is very useful when eaten alone with milk or sugar, and is especially good in cases of Scurvy, scrofula, dysentery and derangement of the urinary organs. “ King’s American Dispensary” mentions that a decoction of the leaves, or bark of the root, is astringent and may be’ used in diarrhea or as a local application to ulcers. The berries and roots, bruised and steeped in Holland gin, afford a strong diuretic, active and useful in cases of dropsy and gravel. When eaten in their season, with due regard to quantity, no fruit is more healthful, refreshing or cooling than the blackberries, raspberries and whortleberries. These fruits should be canned, as they are very useful in pies, etc. When people understand that these fruits, including the currant, are among the most healthful articles of diet, they will not hesitate to use them very freely. We rank the currant very near the strawberry in its medicinal qualities.— Detroit Post.

Ancient and Modern Eyesight.

A curious controversy has lately sprung up in Germany as to whether the eye in the human race has always possessed the same delicacy as at present, and whether men at all epochs have perceived colors as we now distinguish them. Dr. Magnus, an oculist, asserts that primitive man had only a confused notion of tints, and even did nqt recognize them all. Thus, the ancients only saw three colors in the prism instead of the seven which exist, and the sages of the North only speak of three in the rainbow. The most luminous in the spectrum, those which act with most intensity on the retina are red, orange and yellow; blue, indigo and violet only make a feeble impression; green occupies an intermediate rank. Well, throughout the records of antiquity only the red and yellow, so to say, are spoken of. According to Pliny, painters only employed those two colors, with black and white, to produce their finest effects. The most valued tissues were

dyed solely in red and yellow. The knowledge of green does not exist either in Sanscrit literature or Homer, who, in describing the verdure of the country, uses epithets relating to other colors. A savant, M. Geiger, asserts that he has proved that neither in the poems of the Rig-Vqda nor the Aresta, the Bible, the verses of Hemer, the Koran, or the ancient literature of Finland or Scandinavia, is any mention of blue to be found. In fact, no word is to be traced in any of them to designate that color. Therefore, some people must have existed for whom verdure was not green, nor the skies blue. Even at this day, the inhabitants of Burmah have great difficulty in making a distinction between blue and green. , Mr. Gladstone, whose knowledge of Greek <is-well kftown, is wholly of the opinion of. Dr. Magnus. We have -no occasion to say that those views are strongly contested.- Galiqnani's Messenger.

A MAN who, having lost heavily in business, had become morose and illnatured, one day said tohis wife: “ We must sell off some 'of our carriages. Which shall it be?” “My dear,” responded the wife, “you may do as you please so long as you only get rid of the ‘ sulky’ and retain the • sociable.’ ”

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—The dress of Miss Warren, al *, Texas party, was peculiar in being made of such striped cloth as convicts wear. Her brother was serving a term in State Prison, and she, believing him innocent, had made up her mind to display her sympathy. —Ah a train on the Atlantic Great Western Railroad, a few days ago, was approaching Meadville, Pa., a crow, flying across the track, was struck by the headlight with such force as to break the glass. The crow was caught in the reflector and taken to Meadville.'* —A lady at Binghamton, N. _T., while looking over her husband’s old clothes, recently, discovered a letter which she had given him to post eleVeu years age The letter was addressed to a lady friend, and its non-arrival was the cause of an estrangement between the two families ever since. —The horse of Mr. Charles Burckhardt, of Cincinnati, ran away, the other day, jumped over a wood-sawyer at work on a pile of wood, plunged through the summer doors of a beer saloon, wrecking the interior badly, went out again through the plate-glass window, knocked the sprinkling arrangement off of a watering-cart, tried to jump into an express wagon, and finally sprang through the windows of a street-car; he was then secured somewhat bruised, but otherwise safe and sound. —Recently, while Dr. Williams, of Brookfield, was attending a patient, he was called out and found bees swarming about and lighting upon his horse. A large number immediately made an attack upon him. The lady of the house threw ashawl over the doctor’s head and thus enabled him to put a blanket upon the horse and get it loose. He led the horse a long distance, but the bees followed. He only got rid of them by putting the horse in a dark stable, but on taking her out an hour afterward, the bees returned. The horse had broken the shafts and parts of the harness. The doctor was severely stung.— Hartford Courant. —Ever since work was stopped on the Washington Monument, a score of years ago, a stout rope has hung down the shaft inside from the derrick at the top, and recently it became a question how to reach the top and make a good connection for hoisting up the necessary tackle. After testing the old and weather-worn rope, a rigger volunteered to climb up, carrying a new one up with him. Up he went, and reaching the top in safety waved his hat and cut the old rope down. The surprise of those on the ground can be imagined when the old rope, on striking the ground, fell into a thousand pieces. It was found to be completely rotted through, and crumbled to small pieces on being handled. The wonder is that it sustained its own weight, much less that of the venturesome rigger and his load of rope. —A few days ago, Mrs. Sarah Sist, a wealthy young widow, living in Nelson County, Va.,.near Petry’s Mill, cut the throat of a servant woman on her plantation, with a razor, almost severing her head from the body. Her victim died almost instantly. After completing this fiendish work, the infuriated woman directed her attention to a child of her victim, a little girl of seven or eight years, who was close by. Seizing her she made quick work of her, cutting her throat and throwing her body in a mill-pond. The reasons for these fiendish and brutal murders can only be explained by the fact that it is believed that Mrs. Sist was at the time laboring under temporary insanity. There had been no unpleasantness between the two women before the occurrence, and in the morning, several hours before the murders were committed, Mrs. Sist and the woman who fell by her hand were in friendly conversation. Mrs. Sist is well connected and wealthy- She had not been arrested when last heard from.

Insects in South America.

In reviewing “ Fifteen Thousand Miles on the Amazon and Its Tributaries,” the Spectator refers to the insect life of that region, of which we have had occasion frequently to speak. “ The narrative,” it says*, “ impresses one with ah idea of perfect truthfulness, and certainly does not stimulate one’s desire to visit the localities spoken of. In the first place, the journey was nothing but one long martyrdom from insect tormentors. Imagination fails to conceive their numbers and variety; mosquitoes, some kinds of which have bills of immense length, and inflict a sting as sharp as if they had been plunged into strong acid; ticks, of several varieties; venomous ants; minute bees, which persist in drinking the moisture from the human eye; and large bees, more like beetles, that can hit a blow by their own impetus which is long remembered by the unhappy receiver; wasps, of all sorts, from the little ones that make their nests under single leaves, and can be removed without much danger, if you whistle to them while carefully breaking off the twig upon which they are found, to the fierce marabuntas, which, when they attack in numbers, can easily deal out death

to their enemies, one single sting causing violent .pain and swelling; mayflies, attracted'by light, coming on board in thousands of an evening, and falling into the food, so that it was sometimes found preferable to consume dinner almost in the dark; motucasof two kinds, species of cow-flies, which not only give 1 a painful bite, but arc able to suck a I large amount of blood, if undiscovered; ana lastly, perhaps the worst pest of ' all, the detestable pium—a disgusting ' little black fly—the puncture of which, at first scarcely noticeable, leaves behind ft, under the skin, a little round ] spot of blood, and as these creatures attack the unfortunate human being in I myriads, it is not uncommon to see I persons whose wrists and necks are al- . most black with their wounds, the irritation from them being also quite unbearable. The pium infests the whole of the Upper Amazon and its tributaries, beginning its work at six o’clock in the morning, and ending at the same time in the evening. Happily, however, this pest has its enemy, in the shape of a small ichneumon fly, which seizes it, tucks it between it* legs, and carries it off, to store up as food for its own larvie. To all these insect tormentors, as well as to noxious animals of every kind, the Amazonians apply the comprehensive Portuguese word Bicho, which may be taken to mean a disagreeable creature of any species save the human one; and, as has been said, bichos have pretty much their own way at present in these regions, although when the forests are somewhat cleared, i t may be hoped that these plagues will also take their departure.”— Chicago Tribune. —Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines is a little jnore than seventy-three years old,